Deputy Chief Minister claims State acting swiftly to combat effects of climate change PCB and forest department are acting in tandem to protect Tamil Nadu } TAMIL Nadu was acting swiftly to combat the impacts that climate change, claimed Deputy Chief Minister M K Stalin. Speaking at the launch of the
KOZHIKODE: The Ministry of Environment and Forests has released the draft notification of the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) 2010 under the Environment Protection Act 1986, inviting suggestions and objections from the public within 60 days after the issue of the draft. Under the new notification, all the islands in the backwaters of Kerala will be covered under the CRZ notification.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The first Indian Biodiversity Congress (IBC-2010) and Expo will be held here in December.
The first record of a case of probable dengue fever is in a Chinese medical encyclopedia from the Jin Dynasty (255-420 AD) which referred to a
IMPHAL, Oct 10
To Discuss Framework And Modalities For International Consultation & Analysis Urmi A Goswami NEW DELHI BARELY a month before the Cancun climate summit, ministers of the BASIC countries will be meeting for a crucial round of consultations in Tianjin on Monday.
NEW DELHI: Sales growth of diabetes medicines has accelerated the fastest among all drugs sold in the country as pharma companies pushed their products to tap over 50 million people suffering from the lifestyle disease in India, making it the single largest home for diabetics in the world. Oral anti-diabetes segment grew 29.7% for the nine-month period ended August 2010 over the year ago period
GMR Power set up its first 200-MW plant in 1998, but it has projected a power generation capacity of over 12,500 MW by 2016. Reliance Power, which came into existence in 2007, plans to generate 25,000 MW by 2015. And Adani Power, which went public just three years ago, already has 990 MW capacity at Mundra, which is being scaled up to 4,620 MW by 2012.
In an interview with BW
By giving cane farmers increasing prices every year, the government has made cane farming inefficient and uncompetitive The government is exercised about the food grain situation. It faced criticism from the Supreme Court for letting food grains rot in the rains instead of feeding the poor.
Non compliance with effluent standards: show cause notice dated 11.10.2010.
When Ranbir Singh Butola took over as the managing director of ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) in 2004, the overseas subsidiary of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), his brief was to expand India's oil and gas footprint.
The neo-natal clinic at the government hospital in Mandya, 90 km from Bangalore, is surprisingly clean as ophthalmologist Anand Vinekar, 35, wheels in a Retcam, a cutting-edge diagnostic device the size of a television set. Vinekar then pulls out what looks like a hair dryer from the device.
* Elephant corridors have no legal protection under Wildlife (Protection) Act or the Environment (Protection) Act * Many corridors have now become private land and areas under human use (road/rail) * There is no dedicated money for corridor protection, experts demand Rs 200 crore for this in the 12th five-year plan *** The first news despatches brought out all the brutal detail: a
Piper betle L. is one of the important plants in the Asiatic region which ranks second to coffee and tea in terms of daily consumption. Though the plant is known for abuse, in recent years several reports have been pub- lished on the effects of the plant extract and chemical constituents on different biological activities in vitro and in vivo.
Anantapur, Oct.
Kakinada, Oct. 9: The use of solar energy for effective drying of fish was stressed at the one-day workshop organised here on Saturday.
<p>This document contains the summary of the BASIC meeting of Climate Experts on equitable access to carbon space and issues related to trade policy and climate change, at Tianjin during 9-10 Oct.2010.
In 2010, the links between the financial markets and agricultural trade flows have become both stronger and more visible.
Hori, the protagonist in Munshi Premchand
